The descendants of one Civil War soldier attended the service at Saint Francis Catholic and Pine Grove cemeteries in Waterville, honoring their service on the anniversary of a pivotal battle in the War Between the States.
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Details expected soon on what need be done to preserve Memorial Hall in Oakland
The town’s Memorial Hall Committee hired a Portland architectural firm to go over the building to determine what would be needed to preserve it, how much it would cost and how long the work would take, with a report expected in about a month.
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Posted inNation & World
The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold: This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban
The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston man’s Civil War letters ‘a witness to some of our nation’s most important moments of history’
George Nye may be the only soldier who rose from private to general.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In ‘heart-rending scenes,’ white slavers ‘would sell their own children,’ William Davis recalled.
Posted inLocal & State
Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm
A celebration Saturday in Paris Hill calls attention to the often-overlooked village where Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president was born.
Posted inNation & World
Sanctions sought against FBI over Civil War gold dig videos
The FBI has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: World’s largest humanitarian crisis continues as we look elsewhere
The only way to end U.S. complicity in hundreds of thousands of Yemeni civilians’ deaths is for Congress to withdraw all U.S. support for the country’s civil war.
Posted inNation & World
Judge orders FBI to produce records on Civil War gold hunt
A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency’s search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania.
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Treasure hunters: Did FBI destroy video of legendary Civil War gold?
Finders Keepers’ owners, a father-son duo, spent years looking for the fabled 1863 shipment of Union gold that was supposedly lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.